Former Cincinnati Reds and current Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Trevor Bauer and Chris Rose - a Miami University grad who works for NFL Network, worked for MLB Network and hosts the Chris Rose Rotation podcast on Jomboy Media - exchanged tweets Wednesday about Major League Baseball pitchers being checked by umpires for foreign substances, and how Bauer might handle it.
Bauer made his first start - Wednesday night against the Padres in San Diego - since the checks commenced, and Rose tweeted he was excited to see Bauer's reaction:
The umpires' check of Bauer was uneventfuBauer did offer opposing pitcher Joe Musgrove the rosin bag when Musgrove lost his bat at the end of a swing:
Bauer sounded off last week via Twitter about MLB's sticky-stuff memo.
In April, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said he believed Bauer - who won the National League Cy Young Award last season for the Reds - was being singled out in MLB's reported investigation of "suspicious baseballs" collected by umpires from Bauer's start earlier this season.
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